Introduction:
Located adjacent to Melbourne’s Ice-House, an unused amusement park and a dysfunctional ferris wheel, the Team 3 site sits central to these man made surrounds. Nearby seating and young saplings add to what is essentially a barren landscape within an over-scaled built environment.
This environment is branded ‘Harbourtown’ and is currently suffering from lack of commercial success due to the failure of the nearby ‘Melbourne Eye’. It’s left the commercial precinct in a sick state, so much so that local business’ rent have been reduced to encourage the owners to continue with their leases which in effect will encourage public interest and commercial gain!
Design Intent:
An alien landscape exists in need of healing. Here sits an alien form - healing.
Our design proposition is foreign to Docklands, yet it provokes familiar and intimate memories. Grafted onto site, the arching form grows from the ground plane to enclose and reveal. An exterior skin invites exploration within where a nexus of green connects healer with earth through human connection - healing.
Detail:
The knitting, weaving and grafting of materials emphasize the human act of making - leading to a response through a tactile experience further re-enforcing the impact of healing by a ‘grafted’ form.
Recycled 12mm diameter reinforcement as the ground structure provides the support from which 40mm agricultural polypipe bends to form a framework. Additional 2mm thick wire struts are interlaced throughout the polypipe for secondary support.
An external skin of recycled packing material is knitted together with wool, sculpted to the polypipe framework. Local Hay between internal and external skins exists, yet a selection of native plants are centrally located - upside down.
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